Competencies and Roles of Trainingand development Professionals

This present study aimed at assessing the extent of importance of various training and development competencies and roles, and demonstration of them by training professionals in India. Time to time American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) conducts the studies and updates the competencies required for training professionals. The conceptual model of ASTD, 2004 is adapted in this study. Based on the data collected from 127 training professionals and 194 line professionals, the study finds that there is a gap between the importance of the competencies and demonstration of them, particularly, in the cluster of business/management competencies. With regard to roles, professional specialist has emerged as the most important. Nature of business wise, the study finds that the importance of training competencies and roles is relatively higher in service sector, but training professionals in IT sector could demonstrate these competencies and roles better than service and manufacturing sectors.